Scariest painting I have ever seen....

[spiderhead]

I remember studying that in school. Goya's known for his disturbing pieces.

Some of Odd Nerdrums paintings have a creepy vibe.

Like these.

http://www.nerdrum.com/works/index.php?id=106
http://www.nerdrum.com/works/index.php?id=69

and just for good measure http://www.nerdrum.com/works/index.php?id=49

 

[chatolandia]

Goya did those paintings when he was old and sick

it was his way of facing the inevitable, death.


He also did some beautiful Pieces

and some powerful pieces

Which is why he is admired as an artist, he was able to show the full range of human emotion in his art...

and that is what makes an artist different from a craft person

 

[Syn]

That was a very haunting painting.

I'm now a fan of Goya's

 

[HOT4MEN]

Oh, my.... that is.......I wouldn't want that in my house when I walk around in the dark!

 

[GL]

i've always been fascinated with that work of goya's. yes it is disturbing but there is something starkly beautiful in it. weird, i know...

 

[senorserio]

I'm not the kind of person who is easily scared or disturbed by media. I was raised on horror films (I clearly remember watching the likes of Hellraiser and The Evil Dead with my Mom when i was five), and have ever since actively sought out the strange or disturbing in art, fiction etc, as it is where my passiosn lie.

Last night, I was searching the net for paintings by Goya. I've heard alot about the artist, but have never really sat down and taken time to properly appreciate his work. Then I found this:

http://eeweems.com/goya/saturn_large.html

I don't quite know what it is about this particular picture. I'm a huge fan of the works of H.R Giger, and there are many of his paintings that, ostensibly, are more distressing and disturbing, but there is somethign about the starkness and simplicity of this piece, the empty madness in Saturn's eyes...it freaked me out, and now I adore it, as there is very, very little in the way of art that has such a profound effect on me.

Wow! This is crazy but that's exactly my reaction to this painting. It is hands down my favorite. I was absolutely riveted by it when I visited the Prado in Madrid (where the original is located). I have since returned to the Prado a couple other times and it is the first painting I visit. I bought a replica in the museum's gift shop and brought it home and had it framed. It now hangs in my bedroom and I glance at it every day I pass by it. Everyone thinks I'm insane for loving such a gruesome work but there's just something about it......

 

[pacz]

I think it is an amazing piece, full of emotion. One of my favorite artists is Thomas Eakins who did this:

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/E/eakins/gross_clinic.jpg.html

 

[ashonfire]

I saw it in Madrid too and stared at it for ages, totally transfixed.

Love those Spanish Masters.

 

[Spellbound]

When I saw this painting in the Louvre, a chill went up my spine. I don't know why, its not scary or anything, but still...

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Gérin_Clytemnestre_hésitant_avant_de_frapper_Agamemnon_endormi_Louvre_5185.jpg

 

[bokan800]

Have you seen this painting?

Michael Hussar's Hans Memling.

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/hans memling.png

 

[Spellbound]

^^
Oh my..... thats what nightmares are made of

 

[Piquechampion]

Goya did those paintings when he was old and sick

it was his way of facing the inevitable, death.


He also did some beautiful Pieces

and some powerful pieces

Which is why he is admired as an artist, he was able to show the full range of human emotion in his art...

and that is what makes an artist different from a craft person

And don´t forget this excellent piece of psicological analisis

Anybody who has read the biographies of them royal family knows what I mean

 

[pacz]

It's a very beautiful painting. But for me, the inclusion of a cringing mother does not necessarily make the painting "emotional". I've always though of Eakins work as very detached - a clinical painter who painted clinical things.

I was talking about the Goya painting as emotional, not the Eakins piece. I disagree about him being clinical. I have this print in my living room.

http://www.avironfrance.asso.fr/images/histoire/MuseeAviron/GalerieTableaux/ThomasEakins_1.jpg

 

[spiderhead]

Have you seen this painting?

Michael Hussar's Hans Memling.

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/hans memling.png

Michaell Hussar was a teacher of mine at art school. He looks just as scary as his paintings do but he's a really nice guy.